The recent increase in house prices across the OECD highlights again the importance of understanding the different determinants of residential property demand. Sustained activity in housing markets across a number of countries was one of the contributing factors to the financial sector...

A noticeable data gap in the evaluation of any property market is that of a residential land price series. Land costs are one of the most significant components of housing construction, however many markets do not have accurate information on such prices. The Irish housing market, more than most...

We review the recent performance of the Euro area economy, focusing in detail on the separate roles played by labour input, capital input and total factor productivity (TFP). After a long period of catching up with US levels of labour productivity, Euro area productivity growth has, since the...